1.6.0: TNT, tweaks and cheats

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Graphics Quality option – Low quality should be used on Mali GPUs which can't render water properly
• Added better approximation of original physics if Reforged Mode is turned off
• Added original HUD if Reforged Mode is turned off
• Added original TNT animation and behavior
• Added Show Player Trails option
• Added full Italian translation by @Hexaae
• Added full Turkish translation by Consul
• Added Ogg Vorbis audio support – used in some JJ2+ levels
• Added JJ2+ tileset palette remapping support
• Added Spring delay support
• Added idle animation to Bat enemy
• Added some JJ2 cheats – see http://deat.tk/jazz2/help#how-to-enable-cheats
• Strip binaries on Linux and macOS – smaller binary size on these platforms
• Adjusted some lighting parameters and water shader
• Adjusted some animations
• Improved font rendering
• Fixed tilemap rendering
• Fixed language selection on Android
• Fixed last trimmed character in some messages
• Fixed Steam Note
• Fixed Bubba boss and possibly other enemies
• Fixed app icon of GLFW build on Linux

1.5.0: Translations and a lot of changes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Multi-language support – using standard .po/.mo files, level texts are translatable too now, original .j2s files are not compatible because of different encoding
• Added some JJ2+ (MLLE) features – custom level palette, extra tilesets, additional layers, layer visibility, layer speed model, tinted layer rendering, darkness color, pit type, water level – levels using these additional features should look better now
• Added Allow access to external storage on Android 11 or newer – then you can save Source directory to these additional paths: ‹Storage›/Games/Jazz² Resurrection/Source/, ‹Storage›/Download/Jazz² Resurrection/Source/ which is helpful especially on Android 13
• Save config file to external storage next to Source directory if possible on Android
• Added full Czech translation by @deathkiller
• Added full Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Added full Russian translation by @MAN-biker
• Added partial Italian, Portuguese and Turkish translations – contact me if you want to improve them or add new ones
• Added Keep Aspect Ratio In Cinematics to Options
• Added Discord Rich Presence also on Linux
• Faster scrolling in Custom Level selection screen
• Rollback weapons on player death to Checkpoint
• Added Holiday Hare '17 and Holiday Hare '18 episodes to Episode selection menu – these levels are still not working properly because of incompatible scripting
• Added full macOS support – added application bundle and fixed music playback
• Added DEB and RPM packages (Linux only)
• Added macOS build and Linux aarch64 (ARM64) build to GitHub Actions
• Improved font rendering and added some missing characters
• Replaced JSON library by simdjson
• Improved path handling on Xbox – added \Games\Jazz2 Resurrection\ as alternative path for external storage
• Merged xmas98 episode into xmas99 (internal change to simplify translations)
• Reworked destructible tiles
• Improved some menu sections
• Improved scripting support
• Fixed encoding of level texts
• Fixed wrong layer positioning
• Fixed palettes with emply alpha channel in some tilesets
• Fixed wrong translucent alpha value
• Fixed Ice Block
• Fixed Hurt event
• Fixed some enemies and solid objects
• Fixed Electro weapon
• Fixed Birds shooting in solid walls
• Fixed orientation of some horizontal Springs
• Fixed TNT blocks in xmas3.j2l level
• Fixed Queen boss

1.4.0: Frozen again!

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added winter theme to main menu (Holiday Hare '98 or Christmas Chronicles required)
• Added Swinging Vine
• Added Pole and Pinball Paddle SFX
• Added some missing player idle SFX
• Added Discord Rich Presence (Windows only)
• Added /log startup parameter to show log console (Windows only)
• Blacklisted also Razer DeathAdder Mice which were incorrectly detected as gamepad on Linux in some cases
• Save config file to external drive if Source is also on external drive on Xbox
• Show active external drive indicator in main menu (Xbox only)
• Improved Checkpoints
• Improved input handling and fixed gamepad support on Android
• Reworked input handling on UWP
• Optimized shaders and debris
• Updated SDL library to v2.26.1
• Improved Checkpoint spawning
• Fixed high-DPI support
• Reorganized and fixed CRT shaders – desired Rescale Mode must be chosen again
• Fixed audio popping
• Fixed many enemies
• Fixed frozen Spring, Ice Block, Rolling Rock
• Fixed Freezer weapon
• Fixed Devan animation
• Fixed Alt+Enter (switch fullscreen) on GLFW and UWP
• Fixed numeric keys to switch weapons
• Fixed NTFS external drive support (Xbox only)
• Fixed Emscripten (web) version on Xbox

1.3.0: Scanlines, UWP fixes and other changes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added time smoothing to prevent microstuttering
• Added external (USB) storage support on Xbox (UWP) – the application must be set to Game type, Source directory must be located in \Games\Jazz² Resurrection\Source\ on an external drive, exFAT is recommended or correct read/write permissions must be assigned
• Added Scanlines rescale mode
• Switch to next weapon on short press instead of weapon wheel
• Added Copter SFX
• Added gamepad axis normalization on Android
• Increased gamepad refresh interval to 2 seconds on Android
• Increased gamepad deadzones from 5% to 10%
• Changed internal name of UWP package
• Blacklisted Razer Keyboards which were incorrectly detected as gamepad on Linux in some cases
• Blacklisted fingerprint sensor uinput-fpc which was incorrectly detected as gamepad on Android
• Added more verbose diagnostics logging
• Improved main menu if no Source found or Shareware Demo is used
• Improved weapon wheel
• Improved high-resolution icons
• Improved Android path handling
• Reduced instances array size in shaders
• Fixed critical crash on Android
• Fixed wrong resolution on UWP
• Fixed gamepad triggers on UWP
• Fixed poor performance on UWP
• Fixed loading of unsupported versions
• Fixed player jumping on Springs
• Fixed flickering of stuck enemies (Helmut, Demon and LabRat)
• Force use fixed batch size on PowerVR Rogue GE8300 on Android to avoid missing sprites

1.2.0: Gamepads and fixes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added automated experimental builds – no need to wait for release to try some new features
• Added Play Custom Levels section
• Added logging to file on Android – log can be found in /­Android/­data/­jazz2.­resurrection/­files/Jazz2.log
• Content directory is included in APK on Android for easier installation – if you have previous version, just install the newer one and run it
• Added /bypass-cache startup parameter to avoid creating Cache directory (advanced use only)
• Improved weapon wheel
• Improved gamepad support – triggers can be also used now
• Better error messages
• Reduced application size for Android
• Fixed some issues with paths and main menu
• Fixed Shareware Demo
• Fixed Uterus boss
• Fixed spawning of enemies near starting point
• Fixed TNT doesn't break "TNT blocks" sometimes
• Fixed music sometimes doesn't play
• Fixed some gamepad issues

1.1.0: Gamepads and other fixes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Universal Windows Platform build (mainly for Xbox One / Series)
• Added Antialiasing – improves image quality when non-integer scale is used
• Added /windowed startup parameter
• Improved gamepad support
• Improved support for high-DPI displays – auto-scaling window when moving between displays with different DPI, switching to fullscreen on current display instead of primary
• Improved message in main menu if Source directory is not found
• Improved episode selection menu
• Fixed all reported issues with paths, especially on Linux
• Fixed various hitboxes
• Fixed Christmas Chronicles
• Fixed coins and gems not rolling back to checkpoint if player died
• Fixed Copter visual effect is missing

1.0.0: Completely rewritten

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• The game was fully rewritten in C++ with better performance and many improvements. Also Import procedure is not needed anymore – just copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 files to Source directory and run the game, see Running the application for more information. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.
• Additionally, these is a new web version, which is identical to other versions, to run the game quickly without any installations. Additional episodes can be imported from Jazz Jackrabbit 2 files to unlock full game. But for better performance, it's recommended to use native version for your platform.
• Improved collisions, lighting, visual effects, enemies and almost everything
• Improved touch controls support on all platforms
• Added arbitrary refresh rate support (recommended minimum is 50Hz) – movement should be smoother
• Added level scripting support using AngelScript
• Added Alt+Enter to switch fullscreen
• Added Razer Chroma integration (for keyboards with RGB support)
• Improved main menu with true touch support
• Uses the same base resolution and shaders on all platforms – it should look better on Android now
• Fixed many bugs
• Known issue: Saved state cannot be transfered from previous versions, do NOT use any content from previous versions
• Known issue: Frozen and Copter visual effect is missing (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: Sometimes music doesn't play for an unknown reason, restarting level fixes it (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: Swinging vine event is missing (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: Discord integration is missing (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: macOS version doesn't play music, because libopenmpt library is missing (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: No multi-language support in this version, only English, existing translations coming soon (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: Cheats are missing (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: Shields are not working yet (fixed in newer version)
• Known issue: No normal maps – previous auto-generated normal maps were wrong anyway (visual-only issue)

0.7.3: Frozen.. and some fixes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added frozen effect
• Fixed Freezer weapon hitbox
• Fixed some crashes and corrupted player in-game state

0.7.2: Weapon Wheel and better gamepad support – Minor fixes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Fixed Weapon Wheel animation
• Android: Fixed analog gamepad support
• Android: Fixed Weapon Wheel
• Android: Fixed Cannot use B button in Controls settings

0.7.1: Weapon Wheel and better gamepad support

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Weapon Wheel to Enhancements settings section – it changes Switch Weapon action on gamepad to Weapon Wheel
• Fire action is mapped to right gamepad trigger (as secondary button, cannot be changed)
• Default gamepad control scheme was changed
• Allow to cancel remapping with Escape key in Controls settings section
• If one key/button is used twice in Controls settings section, it will be marked red
• Improved Rolling Rock